30 Minutes or Less (2011) /Movie Review

30 Minutes or Less (2011)

Genre:  Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime

Runtime:  83 min

Plot:

Two fledgling criminals kidnap a pizza delivery guy, strap a bomb to his chest, and inform him that he has mere hours to rob a bank or else..

Casts:

Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari, Nick Swardson, Dilshad Vadsaria , Michael Peña

Bianca Kajlich, Fred Ward

Directed by Ruben Fleischer
Writing credits  Michael Diliberti and Matthew Sullivan

Original Music by Theodore Shapiro

Cinematography by Jess Hall

Country:  Germany | Canada | USA

Language:  German | Spanish | English

Filming Locations:Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Company:  Columbia Pictures

Top Review

As most of you know, 30 Minutes or Less released this weekend to join the countless number of comedies we've seen this summer. My initial expectations for this movie were somewhat high as I thought we would be seeing a clever comedy about a pizza delivery boy having to go through a series of hilarious trials in order to get a bomb off his chest. Instead what I got was a simple, sexual joke infused, and foul mouthed comedy that was not as funny as I had hoped.

To give you a refresher on the plot, 30 Minutes or Less is about a lazy, careless pizza delivery boy named Nick (Jesse Eisenberg) who really has no interest in his responsibilities. The arrogant jerk, which Eisenberg seems to be a master at playing, has no real friends with the exception of his loyal Indian pal Chet (Aziz Ansari), a hard working, rule abiding teacher who just want to be successful. Their simplistic life of playing video games and drinking beer is soon interrupted, when an irresponsible, vulgar, and idiotic man-child named Dwayne (Danny McBride) and his naïve, clueless, innocent sidekick Travis (Nick Swardson) kidnap Nick and strap a bomb to his chest. The price for Nick's freedom, $100,000 for funding Dwayne's personal plans and Nick must deliver in 10 hours or less.